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Quick Hits 8.19.08
The new issue of Climbing Magazine has an article about Thompson Creek in the section focusing on Access Issues. It’s a good take on the situation, which hopefully will be resolved sometime next year. We had to go climb somewhere else on Sunday because we got there and 9 people had signed in ahead of us. Oh well, at least it’s not too far to the Narrows from there.
Patagonia has a nice article on taking care of your waterproof shells. You mean we are supposed to do something other than beat the hell out of this stuff?
Jason Huston has an appropriate rant about the selfishness of climbers. Specifically, he’s talking about a situation out at Rifle, but it happens all over, and it’s certainly something I’ve touched on before. When it comes down to it, we have to realize that climbers are, after all, just people. As much as we want to think that as a group we are different from everybody else, truth is we have the same problems as the rest of the world. Maybe it’s time to find a new crag? No shortage of unclimbed limestone in Western Colorado…
And lastly, if you left your stuck rope at the Industrial Wall at the Narrows recently, I’ve got it. Drop me a line at bj AT splitterchoss.com and you can get it back.
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Bulldog Creek Dog Walk (IV WI 4+)
Hayden Carpenter and Tom Bohanon recently repeated an obscure ice climb on the south side of Mt Sopris. Given a brief mention in Jack Robert’s ice guide, Bulldog Creek Walk is described as being 100 meters of WI 4. What they found was seven pitches of ice in a remote setting that makes for one […]
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HUGE props to Jason for his blog. Especially for his not-so-subtle calling out of the “pro” climber. It’s amazes me that so many people are willing to do bigger things like donate $ & spend hours cleaning up crags (great things, don’t get me wrong) but can’t do the simplest thing: park where you’re supposed to.
I would love to see the Access Fund put an ad in every Climbing & R&I magazine w/ photos of license plates of people’s cars when they’re parked illegally. They could include the area & date the shot was taken. Set up an email account that climbers all over the country can submit their photos to. The bottom of the ad could say “Thanks for… nothing”.
Maybe that would shame some of these idiots into following the rules.
Mega lameness on the part of Rifle climbers, especially so-called “spokespersons” for our sport.
I agree with derek. Maybe we could start a photo blog of illegal parking on splitterchoss.
Thanks for posting the link to my post on The Cleanest Line. Glad you found it interesting.
-Ken aka “old school”